I am strongly anti assassination, but if not for the assassination of William McKinley we probably would never have got Teddy Roosevelt, who was instrumental in busting the trusts and restoring balance to the economy.
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mech@feddit.org 6 days agoCan you name a single instance of the assassination of a ruler that lead to a positive outcome down the line?
absentbird@lemmy.world 6 days ago
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 6 days ago
Luis Carrero Blanco’s assassination, despite much pearl clutching, helped to weaken Franco’s regime. So, when he died two years later, there wasn’t a solid power structure in place to continue fascism in Spain.
btsax@reddthat.com 5 days ago
Fun story, he was killed with a bomb which caused the car he was in to fly so far into the air that he’s often referred to as Spain’s first astronaut.
SharkWeek@lemmy.blahaj.zone 5 days ago
It’s worth reading the whole account if how the bombing was executed, FWIW
In other news, here in Spain that joke is old enough to not make anyone laugh any more …
sukhmel@programming.dev 5 days ago
By that time there was a lot brewing in Spain for quite a long time, but it might have helped to reduce the opposition to successor’s reforms. We will never know for sure, of course